Patents by Inventor Soh Masuko

Soh Masuko has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9053077
    Abstract: HTML data that contains at least a set of reference data (URL) of a visualized image containing characters, reference data (URL) of an un-visualized background image containing no characters whose display position is set to an area superimposed on the image, and un-visualized text data whose display position is set to an area superimposed on the background image is stored in a web DB, and the un-visualized background image data and the text data are visualized and the visualized image data is un-visualized in a translation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Publication number: 20150149875
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device capable of executing a determination of a display position of annotation information in consideration of a characteristic part of a target image without having a person designate a characteristic part of the target image or a part other than a characteristic part of the target image. An area setting unit sets a plurality of areas within a target image. A calculation unit calculates, as to each of the plurality of areas, a total value of edge amounts of the pixels within the area. An annotation information display area determination unit determines a display area of annotation information, based on the total value of each of the plurality of areas. A data output unit outputs data on the target image with the annotation information displayed in the display area determined by the annotation information display area determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Publication number: 20150149883
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device capable of displaying an annotation in an appropriate position. An image obtaining unit obtains an image. An annotation target information obtaining unit obtains annotation target information for indicating an annotation target to which to add an annotation, the annotation target being including in the image. An annotation information obtaining unit obtains annotation information indicating an annotation. A display position determination unit determines a display position of the annotation based on the position or the area of the annotation target. A data output unit outputs data on the image with the annotation displayed in the display position determined by the display position determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Publication number: 20150128015
    Abstract: A browsing system (1) comprises a terminal (100) for extracting additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image, from a document or text character strings that are to be transformed contained in a program specified by that document. In addition, the browsing system (1) comprises an image server (200) that receives an image request and sends as an image response an image to which are added characters or character strings specified by the additional information designated by an image parameter specified in the received image request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Soh MASUKO
  • Patent number: 8984391
    Abstract: To direct the user's awareness towards a page linked from a specific element, a script (object control program) is embedded in a Web page to be transmitted from a Web server and then executed by a user terminal. It is assumed that a plurality of link elements (elements to which links to other Web pages are set up) are placed in the Web page. The computer terminal that executes the object control program places objects with a size covering the whole area of each link element in front of several link elements in a Web page containing a plurality of link elements and gradually scales down the displayed size of the objects. The link elements thereby gradually appear on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Patent number: 8949267
    Abstract: An appropriate search is carried out even with images including a complicated layout structure, decorated characters, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Publication number: 20150019345
    Abstract: An information provision device includes a reception unit that receives a display request for a product from a terminal of a user; a body-information acquisition unit that acquires physical characteristics of the user; a search unit that extracts, from a content storage unit that stores therein product content including information on physical characteristics, content that is related to the product indicated by the display request and indicates a state in which the product is worn by a model having physical characteristics that are the same as or similar to the physical characteristics of the user; and a transmission unit that transmits the content extracted by the search unit to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Publication number: 20150019346
    Abstract: An information provision device includes a reception unit that receives a display request for a product from a terminal of a user; an access-history acquisition unit that refers to an access-history storage unit that stores therein an access history indicating a purchase history or a viewing history of a product, and identifies a product that the user has ever purchased or viewed; an image extraction unit that extracts an image containing the product indicated by the display request and the product identified by the access-history acquisition unit from an image storage unit that stores therein a product combination image; and a transmission unit that transmits information including the image extracted by the image extraction unit to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Publication number: 20150006570
    Abstract: Even when a user does not perform an operation to specify a division of attribute, a search condition for an attribute of a division desired by the user can be specified. A search apparatus includes a first determination unit that, for each of a plurality of input words input by a user in one input area in which at least keywords can be input, determines based on an input words whether or not the input word is a first attribute word representing a content of an attribute of a predetermined first division of a plurality of divisions of attributes had by a search object, and a search unit that searches for a search object by using a content, as a search condition of attribute of the first division, represented by the input word which is determined to be the first attribute word by the first determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Publication number: 20150003690
    Abstract: A first size adjusting unit adjusts a size of a first clothing image which is an image of a first piece of clothing worn on an upper half of a body based on a width of a shoulder part of the first piece of clothing in the first clothing image. A second size adjusting unit adjusts a size of a second clothing image which is an image of a second piece of clothing worn on a lower half of a body based on a width of a waist part of the second piece of clothing in the second clothing image. A display control unit causes a display to display a screen on which the first piece of clothing and the second piece of clothing are vertically displayed, based on the first clothing image and the second clothing image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Soh Masuko, Ryuji Sakamaki, Myagmarsuren Shirmenbaatar
  • Publication number: 20140355874
    Abstract: A color information obtaining unit obtains color information of an attention point or an attention area within a target image. A similarity information obtaining unit obtains similarity information related to a level of similarity between color information of an image that is stored in a storage in advance and the color information obtained by the color information obtaining unit. A notification unit causes an output unit to output a notification based on the similarity information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventors: Ryuji Sakamaki, Hiroyuki Koike, Soh Masuko
  • Publication number: 20140358659
    Abstract: An electronic commerce apparatus has: a determination unit that determines a product page on which an object is displayed based on an access state; a control unit that controls the display or non-display of the object on the product page; and a transmission unit that transmits a privilege presentation page to a user terminal according to operation information on the object. With this configuration, the access state is reflected on the determination of a product page to be a target of granting privilege, hence the granting of privilege can function as an incentive to purchase a product. Further, the display or non-display of an object is controlled according to the access state, so a user who desires privilege can search for a product page on which the object is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Patent number: 8898135
    Abstract: Search keywords are acquired (S3), a first item and a second item displayable by scale axes are set in accordance with the search keywords (S4, S5), a search is made by the search keywords and the scale axis values of the items and a presence of search hits is found (S5), and display data for displaying a 2D distribution of the presence of search hits is generated by the scale axis values of the items in a plane with two axes including the scale axis of the first item and the scale axis of the second item (S11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Patent number: 8891860
    Abstract: In a color name determination device, a color receiver receives input of a color, a document retriever retrieves for documents in which images relating to the received color are disposed, a key word extractor extracts key word character strings appearing in the retrieved documents, an image retriever retrieves for images relating to the extracted key word character strings, a degree acquirer represents, with a predetermined accuracy, colors appearing in the images as a retrieval result and acquires degrees at which the colors appear in the images, a color determiner determines color indicated by the received character string on the basis of the acquired degrees, and a color naming determiner determines, if the received color and the determined color are the same or similar, the a key word character string corresponding to the determined color is a color name character string indicating the received color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Publication number: 20140327697
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device capable of obtaining a trimming image including a characteristic part of a target image without having a person to select the characteristic part of the target image. A setting unit sets a plurality of trimming candidate areas in a target image. A calculation unit calculates, with respect to each of a plurality of trimming candidate areas, a total value of edge amounts of pixels in the trimming candidate area. A determination unit determines a trimming area from among the plurality of trimming candidate areas, based on the total value of each of the plurality of trimming candidate areas. An obtaining unit obtains an image in the trimming area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventors: Keita Yaegashi, Soh Masuko, Shinya Takami
  • Patent number: 8880990
    Abstract: An information processing device that acquires data constituting a Web page that is to be provided to a terminal device via a network and is designed for displaying predetermined content information. The information processing device then acquires a script that is programmed to allow reference to correspondence information associating candidate content information that is set beforehand as a candidate for content information to be displayed on the Web page, with variation information specifying variations of at least the display form of an object to be displayed on the Web page. The information processing device incorporates the script into the page data in an executable manner. In response to a request from the terminal device, the information processing device transmits the page data having the script incorporated thereinto, to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Soh Masuko, Hiroshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20140310585
    Abstract: A browsing system (1) comprises a terminal (100) for extracting additional information specifying characters or character strings that should be added to an image, from a document or text character strings that are to be transformed contained in a program specified by that document. In addition, the browsing system (1) comprises an image server (200) that receives an image request and sends as an image response an image to which are added characters or character strings specified by the additional information designated by an image parameter specified in the received image request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Soh Masuko
  • Patent number: 8862977
    Abstract: A script (object displacement program) is embedded in a Web page to be transmitted from a Web server 10 and executed by a user terminal 20. The user terminal 20 into which the object displacement program is read displaces a plurality of icons from their initial positions to target positions through a path outside a display area of elements in the Web page, and makes the icons converge on the vicinity of each of the elements in such a way that the icons are distributed to the respective elements in the page in accordance with various access data and statistical data (e.g. the number of page views (PV), click-through rate (CTR), order quantity etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Hisashi Suzuki, Soh Masuko
  • Publication number: 20140299659
    Abstract: Provided is a goods information providing system, including: a first position acquisition section (4) for acquiring from a position information DB (31) position information on goods specified by a shelf ID read by a reading unit (22); a related goods extraction section (5) for extracting from a related goods information DB (33) a related goods related to the goods specified by the shelf ID; a second position acquisition section (6) for acquiring from the position information DB (31) position information on the extracted related goods; a recommended goods determination section (8) for determining, as recommended goods, from among the extracted related goods, the related goods selected based on a position of the goods acquired by the first position acquisition section (4) and a position of the related goods acquired by the second position acquisition section (6); and an informing unit (23) for informing of information on the determined recommended goods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Soh MASUKO, Shigaku Iwabuchi, Shinichiro Tosa, Jiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20140304119
    Abstract: The goods and services purchase supporting apparatus includes an identification information acquiring unit (30) to acquire an image of a medium on which a marker indicative of identification information of goods or services is presented, the medium being presented to a customer in association with the goods or the services, and acquire the identification information from the marker represented on the acquired image of the medium, a discount information acquiring unit (34) to acquire, from a storing unit (32) to store discount information applicable to the goods or the services in association with the identification information of the goods or the services, the discount information that is associated with the identification information acquired by the identification information acquiring unit, and an arranging unit (36) to arrange display information, which is based on the discount information acquired by the discount information acquiring unit, with the image of the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventors: Soh MASUKO, Shigaku IWABUCHI, Shinichiro TOSA, Jiro TANAKA